Title - Johnny Appleseed Author: Demuth, Patricia Publisher: Scholastic Print Synopsis Authors Purpose Genre With a bag of seeds and a pot on his head, John Chapman set out West to plant apple trees. He made lots of friends and planted lots of trees. Pretty soon, people started to call him Johnny Appleseed. Entertain Biographies/Auto RDQ (Reading Difficulty Quotient) Accelerated Reader Lexile Find at 208 2.0 470 Amazon RDQ based on a maximum of 3000 words Levels are suggested levels based on RDQ, not official levels Sentences Total Words Different Words Max Word/Sent 13 Total # of Words 452 # of Different Words 204 Ave Word/.Sent 5 Hi Freq occurs 264 58.4% # of Hi freq words 84 41.2% % of Long Sentences 0 Low Freq occurs 1 0.2% # of Low freq words 1 0.5% Subjective Criteria Illustrations: Some support Dialog: Two speakers Dialog: Broken dialogue Vocabulary: Few decoding/definition issues Language: Simple language Sentences: Simple phrases Text structure: Oral/Natural Concepts: Concrete/Simple Social Features Integral Setting - Historical Topics *Plants *History Food American History Legends Low Frequency Words cider